Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day

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1. Belgatom said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

   I definitely will be following this blog as I teach blind people to use computers. I have a few of my students who can beat a mouse user any time. Always ready to forget that mouse more and more.

2. Andrew said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

   Another good one, somewhat related, is Ctrl-End. Takes you to the end of the document.

   Keep up the good work!

3. estephen said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

   Thanks for the kind words, Belgatom!

   Andrew, thanks — I have a master document of some 300 shortcuts that I’ll be putting out here one by one. Ctrl-End is one of those.

4. Bill said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

   Hey, i acidently hit my tab key and it also took me to the begining of the document..tnx….Bill.

5. Bill said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

   Then just keep hitting it to highlight any thing with a link..tnx Bill.

6. estephen said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

   Hey Bill, yup, that’s how the Tab key works in Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as Firefox. I’ll be adding more browser shortcut keystrokes over the next few months. But while I’m here — try using the Space bar to move down a screen when reading a page of text in a browser.

7. Israel said,
   
   

   on February 24th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   Very cool.. keep it.. This gonna be useful for “mere mortals”, more know as “non geeks”.
   XD
   thx

8. Andrew Pennebaker said,
   
   

   on February 25th, 2007 at 9:28 am

   Okay, these are the some of the simplest, most common shortcuts. I have two questions: What about Ctrl+Space+X (Maximize window) and how about a list of common BIOS setup keys (F2, Del, Esc)? Do you only use Windows? I’ve used Windows, Ubuntu Linux, and just bought a Mac. If you do use other operating systems, please also add those shortcuts!

9. estephen said,
   
   

   on February 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

   Hi Andrew, things are starting simple but we’ll build from here. (Gotta walk before we can run.)

   I have used several different Mac OSes as well as Linux, but currently I only use Windows PCs so I only plan on posting Windows keyboard shortcuts here (as the blog title implies). Partly that’s to simplify testing.

   Alt+Space Bar, X is a great tip which will be included in the future.

   I hadn’t planned on covering the BIOS setup keys, but I think that’s a good suggestion and will add them in the future.

   Thanks for visiting and commenting!

10. db said,
    
    

    on February 26th, 2007 at 12:59 am

    nice blog you have here……….i was waiting for something like that……..i kind of hate mouse:p…………..maybe you should give one simple shortcut in one day and some not so common at next day, otherwise good keyboard users have to wait a long time after some new shortcut comes.
    keep up the good work!

11. Eric J. said,
    
    

    on February 26th, 2007 at 8:45 am

    Stephen,

    This is a great blog! Thanks for including CTRL+S. I tell my middle school students that CTRL+S is the Grand Poobah of all keyboard shortcuts as it can save them the hassle and time required to re-do lost work.

    Eric J.
    http://paradigmshiftpodcast.org/

12. estephen said,
    
    

    on February 26th, 2007 at 10:53 am

    db and Eric, thanks for the kind words.

    db, I’ll try to put in some advanced tips here and there. I was working on one for today but the trouble I ran into was I ended up having to explain too many basic keystrokes that I hadn’t covered yet. So for the first few weeks here, most of the tips will be fairly basic. Sorry!

13. Colron said,
    
    

    on April 5th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    Shift+Spacebar moves a page up in reading as well.

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